chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/24/85)
The nice people at Apple sent me my spiral bound MacTerminal manual today
(early versions of the program went out with preliminary manuals, with the
final version due out Real Soon Now -- Real Soon Now just arrived). Nice
manual, set up the same way as the other Mac manuals, informative but not
overwhelming.
At least as interesting is the note that came with it. Earlier I had gotten
a note saying that 2.0 would be available in a few weeks at my dealer. The
latest comment from Apple is that it will be available 'late in the summer'
because they are adding some enhancements to it. The enhancements are NOT
an integrated binhex as speculated in this group earlier, but support for
multiple fonts similar to the way the vt100 handles the fonts, with two
different fonts available by escape sequence and each font selectable to
allow for easy internationalization (for example, you can choose an English
version of the font (with pound sign) for the default, and a vt100 graphics
line drawing font for the other. This should make the program easier to use
in other countries and bring it closer to a real vt100 clone.
The manual has these commands in it already, and it looks interesting. From
what I can tell (cursory scan of the manual) there isn't a lot more to the
upgrade beyond fixing. At least, I didn't notice anything else in the
manual that wasn't there...
chuq
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